Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/December/December 17


 * 1794 – Acting Governor of New South Wales Francis Grose leaves New South Wales for England.
 * 1927 – Batsman Bill Ponsford scores 437 for Victoria against Queensland at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
 * 1967 – Prime Minister Harold Holt goes swimming at Cheviot Beach on Point Nepean, Victoria and is never seen again.
 * 1980 – Two gunmen kill Turkish Consul-General Mehmet Baydar in Sydney, the killers were never apprehended.